A 2‐cent‐a‐gallon increase in the minimum price milk was ordered by the State Agriculture Department. The price increase will take effect Nov. 1, with the, legal minimum rising to $1.20 a gallon. The price of a quart going up to a minimum of 34 cents and a half‐gallon to 63 cents.

The price is the legal minimum only, and actual prices of milk at stores and dairies are several cents higher. At present, the retail price ranges from $1.26 a gallon Noth Jersey to $1.41 in South Jersey. The state put the price increase into effect in response to an increase Of 30 cents per hundredweight in the minimum prices paid dairy farmers.

Electric Rate Rise Is Protested

A delegation of the elderly and public officials, including Representative. Charles W. Sandman Jr., urged the Public Utility Commission to reject or delay a $30.7‐million rate increase requested by the Atlantic City Electric Company. The elderly, who went to the hearing in Trenton five buses, crowded the hearing room and forced the agency to move the hearing to the State Assembly chamber.

The commission said it would conduct a second hearing on Nov. 8 in Atlantic City to listen to the views those who were unable to attend the session here. Mr. Sandman asked the commission to delay any rate, increase until the Federal Government had taken action to increase the incomes of the elderly.

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